The question should be: "Which pros don't use western grip".
I Think today 90% use western.

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Not true, most pros today use a semi-western to mild-semi western. Western is great for spin, but it does not fair well on hardcourts because hitting flat to the forehand side gives Western grip players tons of headaches.

Yeah I know Mauresmo uses western. I was curious. I currently use a semi-western, and the other day I tried out full western for fun, and I played pretty good. I tried it again today and it wasn't as successful. I'll see tomorrow, I was thinking of making the switch.

I play high school tennis, and I think that it would actually be pretty effective. Most players at that level are pretty flat-hitters from what I've seen. Although the low ball could give me problems, I think the difference would be to my advantage.

Yeah I know Mauresmo uses western. I was curious. I currently use a semi-western, and the other day I tried out full western for fun, and I played pretty good. I tried it again today and it wasn't as successful. I'll see tomorrow, I was thinking of making the switch.

I play high school tennis, and I think that it would actually be pretty effective. Most players at that level are pretty flat-hitters from what I've seen. Although the low ball could give me problems, I think the difference would be to my advantage.

William ("Little Bill") Johnston (born November 2, 1894in San Francisco, California – died May 1, 1946 in San Francisco, California) was an American tennis champion. He was the co-World No. 1 player in 1919 along with Gerald Patterson.

Until "Big Bill" Tilden began to defeat him regularly in 1920, Johnston had been the best American player for a number of years. He remained competitive with Tilden for the next seven or eight years, but was never again able to beat him in an important match. Together they won seven consecutive Davis Cup trophies, a record that still stands as of the early 2000s.

Johnston was a small, frail-appearing man who suffered ill health from his Navy service in World War I. He was renowned, however, for the power and deadliness of his forehand drive, which he hit shoulder-high with a Western grip, and which was universally considered the best forehand of all time until the advent of Pancho Segura and his two-handed forehand in the late 1940s. Johnston died of tuberculosis in 1946 at the age of 51.

Johnston was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1958.